Vlog

Privyet folks! My February and March passed unusually quietly – without any particularly long trips. Was it fate preparing me for upcoming heroic feats? Fate or no – here those feats come: the rest of April, and both May and June, are shaping up to be quite eventful. In the meantime I’ve had the chance […]

What exactly is artificial intelligence? These days the term is slapped on practically anything software-driven that runs automatically. If it can do something by itself, people break into a cold sweat and are ready to swear eternal allegiance to it. In reality, the term “artificial intelligence” has different interpretations depending on the level of self-awareness […]

Fasten your seatbelts – in every sense! We’re flying to an absolutely mind-blowing place – Salar de Uyuni, or the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia! The distance from La Paz to Uyuni by car is only 540km, but Google Maps claims the journey takes a whopping eight hours – for Bolivian roads are far from […]

Next up on our LatAm-2025 trip, not far from Bolivia’s de facto capital, La Paz, there’s the unique tourist attraction known as Death Road. It’s around a 30-kilometer stretch of the “Old Death Road” (I’ll explain why it’s called that later) that runs through extremely dangerous yet breathtakingly beautiful mountains. And we were going to […]

Farewell Titicaca, and I hope we’ll meet again. Meanwhile, our January journey through Latin America was heading deeper into Bolivia. Destination – La Paz… La Paz is Bolivia’s second-largest city (if we exclude suburbs) and also the de facto capital of the country – though de jure the capital is Sucre. Yes – there’s a […]

Our LatAm-2025 journey continues: farewell Peru; hello Bolivia!… We begin in this country at Lake Titicaca – its Bolivian side, since we’d just explored the Peruvian side. Mediterranean-like (in appearance), oxygen-deprived (altitude: nearly 4000m), and really quite fascinating!… There isn’t all that much to fully contemplate-meditate upon here on the Islands of the Sun and […]